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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Brief Note: Israeli Forces Destroy Synagogue Near Hebron

The Civil Administration on Monday night evicted and demolished the Hazon David synagogue, located near Kiryat Arba.Hazon David was built in 2001, in memory of David Hacohen and Chezi Muallem, who were killed by terrorists. Hacohen was killed when terrorists fired at his vehicle near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.Muallem, who arrived at the scene soon after the attack to assist Hacohen, was also was shot by terrorists. Muallem was wounded and was taken for treatment at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem where he died of his injuries.Hazon David was declared by the government an illegal outpost, and was destroyed and rebuilt as many as 33 times, the 33rd time coming in 2008.

Kiryat Arba is just outside Hebron with a population of around 7,500 people all of whom, or almost all of whom, are probably Jewish.

This is one of those evil "settlements" that we so often hear about. Those 7,500 Jews? It is they who we are supposed to believe are the "bad guys."

If you look at the comments beneath the article there is much complaining that if the synagogue were a mosque the government would leave it alone.

I find this kind of thing to be deeply unjust to the Jewish minority in the Middle East.

I understand, of course, that the Arab governments represent a far larger, hostile majority population with a traditional, Koranically-based dislike of Jews. I understand that this traditional Arab bigotry inclines the government of Israel to make concessions that are intrinsically unjust toward the Jewish people, but I do not have to like it and I do not.

Just as Israeli government policy toward Jews on the Temple Mount is, ultimately, a reflection of Arab bigotry against Jews, so its policy concerning Kiryat Arba is likewise bigoted against Jews.

Those people, such as my friends Yosef and Melody, are trying to build decent lives for themselves and their families on land where Jewish people have lived since time immemorial.
It is bad enough that the surrounding Arab community is hostile, and often murderously violent, toward these folks, but to have the government of Israel demolish their synagogue is a disgrace.

If anyone thinks that I do not have criticism of the State of Israel, they should think again, because the truth is that Israel is very often unjust toward the Jewish people and I, for one, do not appreciate it.

2 comments:

Hevron and Kiryat Arba are often conflated and confused. In fact when Jew haters scream about Hevron they mean Kiryat Arba. And that town is about 15km away from Hevron out in the brown hills of nothing. It 'displaced' no one, it built on nothing and has nothing to do with Hevron. On the other hand when the real hard core Jew haters refer to Hevron specifically, they're talking about 500 Jews in a city of 250,000 Arabs. That makes the oppressed peaceful peaceloving palestinians of peace 99.8% of the population there.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish